Greetings and Opening Prayer:
to be done by a spiritist teacher who is completely out of balance, confused, noisy and complaining.
Third:
Question when our prayers are heard or not heard. Conclude that we ask what we want, but God gives us exactly what we need. Comment that prayer doesn’t remove life’s obstacles, but gives us the strength to overcome them.
Fourth:
Elucidate the way a prayer is transmitted. Compare human beings to fish dipped in a tank: the water would be the universal fluid, which contains and permeates everything. Likewise, sound is transmitted through the air; the waves are formed in the water when we throw a stone. Our thoughts create fluidic images and reflects it back on its perispiritual body, as on a mirror; the thought takes on the body and somehow photographs itself on it.
First:
Ask them what they thought about this opening prayer. Comment on what they say: it could be seen a lack of concentration and desire. The person was also in a hurry and not focused on the real goal of a prayer.
Second:
Turn on the radio on the wrong frequency. Ask the adolescents what they hear; if they can understand anything. Question what the similarities are between that opening prayer and the radio on the wrong frequency. Prayer is like a radio! You get a better reception if you use the right frequency. Our prayers need to be harmonious, sincere, done with concentration and love to tune into higher frequencies.
Closing Prayer
Suggested text:
Prayer is the way through which the thought is expressed; the creature connects to the Creator. It is the means of communication with God and with the higher spheres of life.
To pray to God is to think of Him, to draw nearer to Him, to put one's self in communication with Him. He who prays may propose to himself three things: to praise, to ask, and to thank.
To understand what happens when we pray, we must understand that we are immersed in the Universal Fluid, which occupies space as well as all incarnate and disincarnate beings. This fluid will receive an impulse that depends upon the will of the man himself. The Universal Fluid is the vehicle of thought, as the air is the vehicle of sound. The difference is that the vibrations of air are confined, while the universal fluid extends to infinity. When thoughts are directed to be any one, on Earth or in Space, from disincarnate to incarnate or vice versa, a fluid stream is established between them. This transmits the thought to one another, as the air transmits sound.
God, being omniscient, knows what we need. But prayer is needed so we raise our vibrations and create conditions for the aid; it also attracts the good spirits and allows us to perceive their good inspirations. We ask what we want; God gives us what we need.
Read also: ’The Gospel According to Spiritism’ Chapter XXVII; The Spirits’ Book questions 658 to 666; ’The Genesis According to Spiritism’, Chapter XIV - Fluids.
Spiritist Teachers: Letícia, Ricardo and Débora.
Translation: Carolina von Scharten, London, linked to BUSS - The British Union of Spiritist Societies.